Professor Tim Child is Group Medical Director of The Fertility Partnership (TFP) and Associate Professor of Reproductive Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is a board Member of the HFEA and chairs their SCAAC committee that considers IVF Add-Ons and produces the ‘traffic light system’ webpage. He is based at TFP Oxford Fertility where he sees patients and also undertakes research with the aim of simplifying treatment whilst maximising success rates. When not working Tim races historic single seater cars and plays guitar in his band.
Whilst around one in six heterosexual couples fail to conceive after 12 months of regular intercourse (the medical definition of infertility), around half will go on to conceive without treatment in the second year of trying. Fertility testing and the three aspects of conception To assess whether continuing trying naturally or moving on to treatment […]
